Improvement in reversible cap and spout for oil-cans



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIGE.

EDVARD T. COVELL, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN REVERSIBLE CAP AND SPOUT FOR OILCANS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 104,275, dated June 14, 1870 3 antcdatcd J uncii, 1870.

I, EDWARD T. GovELL, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New Yorl;,have invented a new and useful Reversible Gap and Spout for Oil-Cans and other vessels, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to the combination in one device of a discharging spout, tube, or conduit with a cap for closing and sealing cans and other vessels, the device being so constructed, as hereinafter described, that by its reversal it may be made to serve either as a cap or as a spout for the vessel, fitting, in either case, closely and securely upon the nozzle thereof, the object of said invention being to provide, in one simple compact device, both a sealing-cap and a discharge-spout to iit upon the nozzle of an oil-can or other vessel.

Figure l of the accompanying drawing is a vertical central section illustrating my improved device when applied as a cap to close and seal the nozzle of a can, Fig. 2, a view in perspective of the same device reversed, and tted upon the saine nozzle, to serve as a spout for the discharge of the contents of the vessel. Fig. 3 is a central vertical section in the Y line a: x, drawn across Fig. 2 5 and Figs. 4, 5,

6, and 7 are similar central sections of varied forms of the device, illustrating` modifications in its construction, Fig. 6 being a top view of Fig. 5.

A in the drawing is a metallic nozzle, fitted and secured in the usual manner to the opening of an oil-can or other vessel, B, and provided with a screw-thread, spun around or otherwise formed or secured exteriorly upon its outer rim. C is a metallic cap, interiorly threaded to screw upon the nozzle A and iit down over it. D is a cup-shaped or funnelshaped spout, threaded at its smaller end to iit upon the nozzle A of the can. The cap C is placed within the spout D, and the two are irmly united, secured, and combined, either by means ot' a strip, d, extending from the rim of the open end of the cap to the rim of the outer end of the spout, as shown in the drawings, Figs. l and 2, or by bending outwardly the rim of the cap and securing it to the rim oi' the spout without an intervening strip, d.

The connection of the cap and spout, by

means of the strip d or otherwise, as described,

is interrupted sufficiently, as illustrated in Fig. 2, to leave or form a discharge-opening, e, for the outiiow of the liquids passing from the lcan into the space f, between the spout D and cap C. (See Fig. 3.) A vent-hole, 7L, is pierced in the connecting and closing strip d, at a point opposite the discharge-opening e.

Where a more deiinite discharging-conduit is required than that supplied by the opening e, said opening may be entirely closed by an extension of the strip d, and a spout, E, be secured to the side of the spout D, to communicate with the space f therein, as illustrated in Fig. 4.

It is not essential to my invention that the space f between the outer shell D of the spout and the cap C, through which the contents of the vessel are discharged, shall be continuous to extend entirely around the cap.

I contemplate anyform of discharge-conduit formed upon either side of the cap, when provided with an opening made to fit upon the nozzle, to be covered and closed by the cap. I have illustrated two such modifications of my invention in Figs. 5, 6, and 7 of the drawing.

In Fig. 5, C is the metallic cap5f, a space over the top of ,the cap, provided with a -threaded flanged opening to screw upon the nozzle A', and F, a conduit or discharge-spout springing from the side of the cap, as shown in Fig. 6, and connecting with the said space f", as shown in Fig. 5.

Figi 7 illustrates my device when constructed with the cap and spout at right angles to each other.

A is the nozzle upon the oilcan. C is the metallic cap in my device, made as hereinbefore described, so as-to screw upon and cover the nozzle A, when desired. Fl is a conduit or discharge-spout, formed over the top of the cap, and provided with a' threaded opening, r, on the side of the cap, to screw upon, said nozzle A, as shown inthe drawing.

Instead of screwing the cap and spout upon the nozzle oi' the can, as herein described, the one may be closely tted upon the other without screw-threads, and in such case the joints may be made tight by a lining of cork or its equivalent, as is customary. I claim as my invent1on The combination, in one device, substantiztlly as herein set forth, of :t cap, to cover, close, or seal im oil-can or other vessel, and :t spout or conduit to facilitate the discharge of its contents, when the combined cap and spout :tre made to t interchangeably upon the same nozzle or opening iu the vessel, substantially as herein described.

This specification of my reversible cap and spout signed by me this 20th day of November, A. D. 1.869.

y E. T. GOVELL.

' Witnesses:

W. H. GARRIsoN,

I. O. HoRToN. 

